Liberal spotted! Wah wah, something didn't go my way, let me sue them
Didn't go my way? I didn't tell them to have a warranty. If they extend that as a part of selling the product, they need to come through with their end of the bargain if the product doesn't continue to function as advertised for the duration of the warranty period. With a $1000 scope, it would sting, but if they didn't fix it, I'd throw it in the trash and buy another one from a competitor. I don't think anyone would enjoy having to do that, but part of the cost of doing international business is that smaller losses aren't recoverable. There's probably not any realistic way I'd be able to force them to come through with their promises, and that's just part of the risk of owning that product.
$4000 is a lot of money to me, over a month's income. The idea, however remote, that I'd have to just deal with that kind of loss without any hope of changing their minds is not worth it to me, especially in a world where there are American companies, owned and staffed by Americans, who understand American values and preferences, who will take my phone call and fix the product.
I once owned a pistol sourced from an American company that had the firing pin hole drilled crooked in the slide. I had thought the off center primer strikes were simply from the barrel being fitted a bit high or low in the locking lugs and I ignored it. One day I removed the firing pin to clean it and discovered it was bent and would only go back in one way.
I sent the gun back to the company and it came back with a new slide. The problem was that the barrel fit so poorly that the gun would no longer feed any ammunition reliably. There also was a considerable gap between the slide and barrel because the ejection port didn't quite fit in the slide.
When I called the 'smith who'd fixed the gun, he made a bunch of excuses and told me the gun was perfectly safe. When I explained that it'd no longer feed even round nose bullets, he blew me off and told me it was impossible.
A chat with his supervisor changed everything, I returned the gun again, and it came back to me with a barrel that fit and fed as it was supposed to. Have you ever experienced something like this? Imagine what was going through my head when someone treated me as if it was my fault that their slide had the hole milled crooked.
If I'm a crybaby for expecting a company to honor their warranty, then I don't even know what that makes you, other than unable to have an adult conversation about adult topics without hurling insults.